Notes from an Alaskan mom reinventing home economics one day at a time!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mini Brownie Hearts

I try to avoid buying the specialty holiday bakeware, because I have no room to store lots of them and I always have this nagging feeling that I'll only ever use them once. But I saw this cute mini-heart pan on a pre-Valentine's super clearance, and figured, for three dollars, why not? Kiddo has a Valentine's party at Kindergarten tomorrow, so I thought I'd make treats.

I made little bite-sized brownie hearts with cream-cheese icing and pink sprinkles. I went with the Hershey's Best Brownie recipe (subbing half the sugar with Splenda) and this tasty cream cheese icing recipe, also with Splenda. I figured a room full of Kindergarteners on Valentines day didn't need full sugar!

Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix on medium speed until well blended.

I didn't have maple flavoring, but the lack didn't hurt. I used Neufchatel cheese, which is the same thing here in the States. One batch was more than enough to frost 1 3/4 batches of brownies (some were sacrificed to quality testing!).